Australian company EPOC Enviro today launched the SAFF®10, a compact new PFAS remediation technology developed in response to industry demand and engineered for sustainability.
The SAFF®10 joins EPOC’s existing suite of SAFF® PFAS remediation technologies, and is ideal for sites with limited space, accessibility issues, and low or intermittent water flows.
Surface Active Foam Fractionation (SAFF®) represents a sustainably engineered approach to PFAS remediation, where a combination of sustainable engineering and biomimicry using air bubbles is used to rapidly ‘foam out’ more than 99 per cent of target PFAS molecules, enabling treated water to be safely returned to the environment.
“PFAS pollution doesn’t always happen on a grand scale, and neither should the solution. As the smallest system in our SAFF family, the SAFF®10 is built for places where other systems simply won’t fit,” said EPOC Enviro Managing Director Peter Murphy.
“With a trim footprint of just 2.3m x 4.6m, the SAFF®10 is an ‘unboxed’ versatile solution that can be housed in an existing room; positioned into a 20ft container; or mounted on a trailer for sites requiring a mobile solution,” he said.
“This versatile alternative runs on EPOC Enviro’s award-winning SAFF® process, so remediators know they’re getting a proven and effective solution that removes target PFAS contaminants without the waste: same clean water outcome, smaller environmental footprint.”
The SAFF®10 can comfortably process 75,000 litres a day, even in complex water chemistries and includes both primary and secondary foam fractionation for superior PFAS capture.
It’s an ideal technology for remediating target PFAS contaminants in any number of applications including landfill leachates, groundwater, trade waste, mobile and fixed foam deluge system decontamination, spill incident waters, and more.
Key features:
- Throughput up to 10m³/hr
- Modular, skid-based system
- Includes dosing capability for enhanced uptake of short chain PFAS contaminants
- Robust technology capable of managing an array of water types and PFAS concentrations
- Mobile, lightweight, forkliftable
EPOC Enviro first conceived of Surface Active Foam Fractionation as a method for PFAS removal in 2015. The patented technology has now successfully treated nearly 1.5 billion litres of PFAS impacted waters across three continents, with operational systems at both Oakey (QLD) and Shoalhaven (NSW) within Australia, and several more on the drawing board.
WHO IS EPOC ENVIRO???Protecting and improving the environment
EPOC Enviro is an award-winning environmental engineering firm.?The EPOC acronym stands for ‘Emerging Pollutants of Concern’.?
Our mission is to?develop and implement clever and practical engineering solutions on a global scale to?permanently remove PFAS and other emerging?contaminants?from the environment.??
EPOC Enviro has successfully pioneered separation and concentration of PFAS contaminants from impacted waters into a single step using their patented Surface-Active Foam Fractionation technology. This solution rapidly removes criteria PFAS compounds including long and short chain contaminants, generally down to the limits of reporting. It’s a clean, cost effective and sustainable process.
WHAT IS PFAS?
PFAS are a family of synthetic compounds widely used globally to make products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease and water.
PFAS compounds break down very slowly over time and are recognised as an ‘emerging contaminant’ with widespread concerns about their characteristics of persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity and impacts on human health. 
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